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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online What difference could 40 minutes make? Quite a bit, the mission controllers on the Mars Curiosity rover program have found out. Since the landing in August, Curiosity has been roaming all over the red planet, learning as much possible about the Martian terrain. The Martian day is about 40 minutes longer than an Earth day, and the mission control team has been trying to live and work on this extended schedule. This is causing havoc...
NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 27, to present science findings from the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. The news conference from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will be carried live on NASA Television, the agency's website and on Ustream. Curiosity, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory, is 50 days into a two-year mission to investigate whether conditions may have been favorable for microbial...
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Curiosity rover mission has found evidence a stream once ran vigorously across the area on Mars where the rover is driving. There is earlier evidence for the presence of water on Mars, but this evidence - images of rocks containing ancient streambed gravels - is the first of its kind. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Scientists are studying the images of stones cemented into a...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online It has been almost two months since NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars and it has already found evidence of an ancient stream on the Red Planet. Curiosity ran up upon a series of stones cemented into a layer of conglomerate rock and shot back some images of the Martian features back to NASA. NASA said the sizes and shapes of those stones offer clues to the speed and distance of an ancient stream's flow. "From the size of...
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA will host a news conference at 11 a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Sept. 27, to present science findings from the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater. The news conference from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., will be carried live on NASA Television, the agency's website and on Ustream. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Curiosity, also known as the Mars...
[WATCH VIDEO] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online After NASA picked out a suitable rock to study on the Red Planet, the agency’s Curiosity rover took a little stroll to the Martian sample and, for the first time, used its robotic arm to make contact with the otherworldly artifact. The rock, named “Jake Matijevic,” after the late rover engineer of the same name, will be studied by Curiosity to determine what chemical elements make up its composition....
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills highlighted the contributions of small businesses to the success of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars during a Google+ Hangout Wednesday with ATA Engineering, headquartered in Herndon, Va. ATA Engineering partnered with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team to test and analyze the entry, descent and landing of the rover, specifically the wheels, actuators and thermal control systems....
PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has driven up to a football-size rock that will be the first for the rover's arm to examine. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Curiosity is about 8 feet (2.5 meters) from the rock. It lies about halfway from Curiosity's landing site, Bradbury Landing, to a location called Glenelg. In coming days, the team plans to touch the rock with a spectrometer to determine its...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills highlighted the contributions of small businesses to the success of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars during a Google+ Hangout Wednesday with ATA Engineering, headquartered in Herndon, Va. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) ATA Engineering partnered with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) team to test...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Curiosity got to witness an Earth-like experience on the Martian surface last week, by watching the moon Phobos create an eclipse on Mars. NASA unveiled new images on Wednesday, as well as an update to Curiosity's whereabouts. On September 13, Curiosity witnessed a Martian moon transit that involved the moon Phobos coming between the Red Planet and the Sun. The new rover snapped images of the event using its Mast Camera, which is...
